Re: Liz Cheney, Wm. Kristol, and their pals slandering DOJ attorneys as the “al-Qaida 7″ and the “Department of Jihad”, engaging in the smear tactics that became synonymous with McCarthy:
If this seems confusing, here’s a simple principle to keep in mind: Representing someone in an American court does not mean agreeing with that person’s actions or [...]
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Also tagged Conservatives, Courts, Detainees, Dick Cheney, DOJ, Keep America Safe, Liz Cheney, Neocons, Republicans, Smear Tactics, William Kristol
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In our current armed conflicts, there are two U.S. drone offensives. One is conducted by our armed forces, the other by the CIA. Every day, CIA agents and CIA contractors arm and pilot armed unmanned drones over combat zones in Afghanistan and Pakistan, including Pakistani tribal areas, to search out and kill Taliban and al-Qaeda [...]
Liz Cheney advocates torture and indefinite detention with no charges, and just launched a repulsive McCarthyite smear campaign equating all detainee lawyers with Al Qaeda. The ACLU has steadfastly opposed Bush’s torture policies as early as anyone, advocates due process for all, and ran a newspaper advertisement pointing out the indisputable fact that military commissions and [...]
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Also tagged ACLU, Centrism, CIA, Courts, Dana Milbank, Detainees, Drones, Due Process, Glenn Greenwald, Guantanamo, Habeas Corpus, Indefinite Detention, Lindsey Graham, Liz Cheney, Military Tribunals, Predator Drones, Unlawful Combatants
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Wednesday, March 10, 2010
War Is a Racket is the title of two works, a speech and a booklet, by retired U.S. Marine Major General Smedley Darlington Butler, one of only 19 people to be twice awarded the Congressional Medal of Honor, in which Butler frankly discusses from his experience as a career military officer how business interests have commercially [...]
Filed in Documents, Notable, Quotable
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Also tagged Afghanistan War, american empire, Anti-War, Authoritarianism, Civil War, Congress, Corporatism, Fascism, Gulf War, House, Imperialism, Interventionists, Iraq War, Korean War, Liberty Bonds, Major General Smedley Darlington Butler, Military, Nation-Building, Nationalism, Senate, Spanish-American War, USMC, Vietnam War, War, War Profiteers, WW1, WW2
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Wednesday, March 10, 2010
Citing anti-competitive concerns, the Justice Department sued Election Systems & Software in order to force the company to divest itself of the voting machine assets it obtained from Premier Election Solutions [Diebold] last year.
The department’s antitrust division, along with nine state attorneys general, filed the civil antitrust lawsuit (.pdf) in U.S. District Court in Washington, D.C., [...]
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Also tagged Antitrust, Corporate Mergers, Corporatism, Courts, Diebold, DOJ, Elections, ESS, Monopolies, Premier Election Solutions, Voting Machines
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We’ve all seen a television show or a movie about an undercover narcotics cop who become crooked. He loses the trust of his colleagues, then his family. Soon, the only contacts he has are with the world of drug dealers that he originally set out to destroy. Now picture this scenario of the criminal cop [...]
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Also tagged Afghanistan, CIA, Cocaine, Colombia, Corruption, Crime, DEA, Douglas Valentine, Drug Policy, Drug Trafficking, FBI, Heroin, Informers, Intelligence, Narcs, Pakistan, Terrorism, The Phoenix Program, Vietnam War, War on Drugs
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Sunday, February 28, 2010
(Michael) Frisch eviscerated both the OPR report and the David Margolis memo. The key ethics inquiry, he argued, was under Rule 1.2(d)—whether Yoo, Bybee, and Bradbury were actually counseling a crime. In this case, the evidence that their advice was designed to facilitate torture is clear-cut, torture is a felony, and multiple players putting a [...]
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Also tagged ABA, Crime, David Margolis, DOJ, Ethics, Felonies, Jay Bybee, John Yoo, Michael Frisch, OPR, Torture
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Thursday, February 25, 2010
Last week, CNN released a poll showing that 86 percent of Americans believe the U.S. government is “broken.” I admit my first reaction was to wonder subversively, “How would they know?” A contemporaneous Pew survey of the public’s “political news IQ” showed that on one of the most heavily reported issues of 2009-10, only 32 [...]
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Also tagged ACLU, Barack Obama, Conservatives, Conspiracy Theories, Constitution, Economy, Healthcare, Ignorance, Jerry Falwell, Movements, Oliver North, Reform, Republicans, Rights, Rightwing, Rush Limbaugh, Tea Party
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Monday, February 15, 2010
There are times when governments fight to keep documents secret to protect sensitive intelligence or other vital national security interests. And there are times when they are just trying to cover up incompetence, misbehavior or lawbreaking.
Last week, when a British court released secret intelligence material relating to the torture allegations of a former Guantánamo prisoner, [...]
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Also tagged Barack Obama, Binyam Mohamed, CIA, Courts, Crime, Detainees, Dick Cheney, George W Bush, Guantanamo, Hillary Clinton, Intelligence, MI5, Rendition, Torture, War Crimes
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Sunday, February 14, 2010
You can have any opinion you want about waterboarding, but it is a fact that it is defined as “torture” under the relevant international treaties and federal law. That is a fact. In short, it is not “torture” to critics, it is “torture” under the law. And there is no dispute that the Bush Administration [...]
Sunday, February 14, 2010
Among the cartels many sources of profit, illegal sales of cannabis account for the majority of their funds at roughly 60 percent, according to the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration.
While debate over how best to fight the increasingly powerful criminal groups continues to wage within the U.S., many Mexican officials have arrived to the conclusion that [...]
Filed in Cannabis, News Blurbs
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Also tagged Cannabis, Ciudad Juarez, DEA, Drug Cartels, Drug Policy, El Paso, Marijuana, Mexico, Preventable Deaths, Reform, Texas, War on Drugs
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Wednesday, February 10, 2010
Wow, the corruption is/was worse than even my imagination is capable of thinking up… and the DoJ isn’t taking action? WTF?
The former employees who filed the lawsuit, a married couple named Brad and Melan Davis, said there was little financial oversight of the money.
Last year, an audit by the special inspector general for Iraq reconstruction [...]
Is there any hope at all that the larger players in the Bush-era criminal activities – Bush, Cheney, Rumsfeld, Rove, Perle, Feith and Wolfowitz most prominently – will be brought to justice when those two lesser lights (Yoo and Bybee) are allowed to return to a law school classroom and a seat on the federal [...]
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Also tagged Accountability, Barack Obama, Condoleezza Rice, Corporatism, Corruption, Crime, Dick Cheney, Donald Rumsfeld, Douglas Feith, George W Bush, Jay Bybee, John Yoo, Karl Rove, Paul Wolfowitz, Richard Perle, Rule of Law, War Crimes, William Rivers Pitt
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Assassinating non-Americans is just as illegal as assassinating Americans. The leap here is not to victims of a different citizenship, but to the legalization of murder.
The director of U.S. national intelligence told the House Intelligence Committee the government has the right to kill Americans abroad.
Here are 10 problems with this:
1. Acts that are crimes under [...]
Wednesday, February 3, 2010
Before the economic downturn, some internships were available for most college students or recent graduates who wanted one, Franzen said. Now that others are jumping into the internship field though, he believes it’s only a matter of time before the question of legality comes up in court.
But can unpaid internships actually be illegal? If so, [...]
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Also tagged College, DOL, Economy, Employment, Ethics, Exploitation, Internships, Labor, Students, University
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